Hi Frank,
Thanks, you got me started. I modified your function a bit. I'm testing for
3 cases now and the appearance of http://, https://, or ftp:// in front of
the string. Let me know if you advise any changes.
<?php
function FormatUrl($url)
{
$url = trim($url);
if (eregi("^(((http)|(https)|(ftp)){1}://)", $url)) {
$result = "$url"; // do nothing
} else if (eregi("^www\.{1}", $url)) {
$result = "http://$url";;
} else {
$result = "http://www.$url";;
}
return $result;
}
?>
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Voorburg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 9:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] Re: Help Formatting String into URL
Ryan,
You can use the following function:
function FormatUrl($url)
{
if (eregi("www", $url))
$result = "http://$url";;
else
$result = "http://www.$url";;
return $result;
}
You can test it using:
$test1 = FormatUrl("google.com");
$test2 = FormatUrl("www.google.com");
print "test1 = $test1<br>";
print "test2 = $test2<br>";
And this will give you the results:
test1 = http://www.google.com
test2 = http://www.google.com
Good luck!
-Frank
"Ryan Schefke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Can someone help me write a short code snippet to format a string to add:
>
>
>
> http://www <http://www/> -- if the string is "google.com" and doesn't
have
> http://www <http://www/> in front of it
>
>
>
> http:// <http://www/> -- if the string is "www.google.com" and doesn't
> have http:// in front of it
>
>
>
> .if you know of a better way to securely check/format a url like this
please
> let me know.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan
>
>
>
>
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